The Force Born of Truth

The Force Born of Truth
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Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Total Pages : 164
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ISBN-10 : 9780761363545
ISBN-13 : 0761363548
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis The Force Born of Truth by : Betsy Kuhn

Gandhi's Salt March united all Indians in peaceful protest for independence. Yet British forces met them with violence and imprisonment. In this story of India's struggle for freedom, we'll learn how Gandhi’s philosophy of nonviolent action overpowered the British government. And we'll witness how Gandhi's actions influenced civil rights movements around the world. "With this salt, I am rocking the foundations of an Empire."―Mohandas Gandhi, 1930 On April 6, 1930, Mohandas Gandhi stood on the coast of the Arabian Sea in western India. He and his followers had walked 241 miles (388 kilometers) to reach this place. Now, at the end of their long journey, Gandhi made a simple gesture marking the beginning of a revolution: he reached down, grabbed a clump of sea salt, and raised it overhead. This signaled to all Indians to embark on a course of civil disobedience―making and selling their own salt. At this time, India had been ruled by the British Empire for more than 200 years. The British had taken control of India's main industries, including its highly profitable salt manufacturing process. By law, Indians were not allowed to produce their own salt―or to even pick up a lump of sea salt. Everyone in India, no matter how poor, paid a salt tax to the British government.

India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy

India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
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Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Total Pages : 871
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ISBN-10 : 9781509883288
ISBN-13 : 1509883282
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy by : Ramachandra Guha

Ramachandra Guha’s India after Gandhi is a magisterial account of the pains, struggles, humiliations and glories of the world’s largest and least likely democracy. A riveting chronicle of the often brutal conflicts that have rocked a giant nation, and of the extraordinary individuals and institutions who held it together, it established itself as a classic when it was first published in 2007. In the last decade, India has witnessed, among other things, two general elections; the fall of the Congress and the rise of Narendra Modi; a major anti-corruption movement; more violence against women, Dalits, and religious minorities; a wave of prosperity for some but the persistence of poverty for others; comparative peace in Nagaland but greater discontent in Kashmir than ever before. This tenth anniversary edition, updated and expanded, brings the narrative up to the present. Published to coincide with seventy years of the country’s independence, this definitive history of modern India is the work of one of the world’s finest scholars at the height of his powers.

Quit India

Quit India
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 104
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015019110231
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Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis Quit India by : Mahatma Gandhi

Towards Freedom

Towards Freedom
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Publisher : Towards Freedom
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0199455236
ISBN-13 : 9780199455232
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis Towards Freedom by : Bipan Chandra

The Towards Freedom volumes, each edited by a distinguished scholar, bring together historical materials relating to the period 1937-47 from a wide variety of sources - official records, private and organizational papers, newspapers, and other contemporary publications available within the country. The series presents documents relating to the activities, attitudes, and ideas of diverse classes and sections of Indian society, all of which contributed to the attainment of independence with partition. In two parts, this volume covers 1942, the year of the largest and powerful mass protest - the Quit India movement. This first part of the volume brings together primary sources and archival documents for the period January 1942 to August 1942 and explores the emergence of the Quit India movement. The documents in Part I cover the entire period from the Bardoli Congress to Allahabad Congress and the beginning of the preparation for the Quit India movement. It includes all the significant milestones which require critical appraisal including the Cripps Mission, Student Politics, Communists, Kisan Sabha movements, Congress Socialist Party, Women and Dalit organizations and protests, the Forward Bloc and the Radical Democratic Party, and the communal problem. Bringing together documents on such a diverse range of dimensions of the mass protest movements, this volume tackles one of the most significant struggles against the colonial government which paved the way for independence. This volume on 1942 maps the events of the most crucial period of the independence of India.

Women on the March

Women on the March
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 614
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105118205256
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Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis Women on the March by :

India's March to Freedom

India's March to Freedom
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 74
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105119342470
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Synopsis India's March to Freedom by : Kalikinkar Datta

Nightmarch

Nightmarch
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 357
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ISBN-10 : 9780226590332
ISBN-13 : 022659033X
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis Nightmarch by : Alpa Shah

Winner of the 2020 Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Book Prize Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize Shortlisted for the New India Foundation Book Prize Anthropologist Alpa Shah found herself in an active platoon of Naxalites—one of the longest-running guerrilla insurgencies in the world. The only woman, and the only person without a weapon, she walked alongside the militants for seven nights across 150 miles of dense, hilly forests in eastern India. Nightmarch is the riveting story of Shah's journey, grounded in her years of living with India’s tribal people, an eye-opening exploration of the movement’s history and future and a powerful contemplation of how disadvantaged people fight back against unjust systems in today’s world. The Naxalites have fought for a communist society for the past fifty years, caught in a conflict that has so far claimed at least forty thousand lives. Yet surprisingly little is known about these fighters in the West. Framed by the Indian state as a deadly terrorist group, the movement is actually made up of Marxist ideologues and lower-caste and tribal combatants, all of whom seek to overthrow a system that has abused them for decades. In Nightmarch, Shah shares some of their gritty untold stories: here we meet a high-caste leader who spent almost thirty years underground, a young Adivasi foot soldier, and an Adivasi youth who defected. Speaking with them and living for years with villagers in guerrilla strongholds, Shah has sought to understand why some of India’s poor have shunned the world’s largest democracy and taken up arms to fight for a fairer society—and asks whether they might be undermining their own aims. By shining a light on this largely ignored corner of the world, Shah raises important questions about the uncaring advance of capitalism and offers a compelling reflection on dispossession and conflict at the heart of contemporary India.

Civil Disobedience

Civil Disobedience
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Publisher : The Floating Press
Total Pages : 41
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ISBN-10 : 9781775412465
ISBN-13 : 1775412466
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis Civil Disobedience by : Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau wrote Civil Disobedience in 1849. It argues the superiority of the individual conscience over acquiescence to government. Thoreau was inspired to write in response to slavery and the Mexican-American war. He believed that people could not be made agents of injustice if they were governed by their own consciences.

Brewing Resistance: Indian Coffee House and the Emergency in Postcolonial India

Brewing Resistance: Indian Coffee House and the Emergency in Postcolonial India
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 361
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ISBN-10 : 9781108490528
ISBN-13 : 1108490522
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis Brewing Resistance: Indian Coffee House and the Emergency in Postcolonial India by : Kristin Victoria Magistrelli Plys

This book details the movement against India's Emergency based on newly uncovered archival evidence and oral histories.

On the salt march : the historiography of Gandhi's march to Dandi

On the salt march : the historiography of Gandhi's march to Dandi
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 8129113856
ISBN-13 : 9788129113856
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis On the salt march : the historiography of Gandhi's march to Dandi by : Thomas Weber

This book provides the definitive account of the most celebrated campaign of history's most important nonviolent campaigner.